Mass Effect 3 Costume/Armor WIP (UPDATES)

[golem95]

First of all great thanks to insanetrooper for thinking up of this method for making the base for the clay sculpt, It works a charm dude! Also thanks to xxcaliberxx as his helmet build is what inspired me to try this out myself, i know he didnt use this method but seeing the awesomeness of his sculpt and insane's sculpts made me want to try my hand at this.

Pepakura stage

See my plush angry bird?

Now i needed to get a mannequin head to put my sculpt onto, but im cheap and didnt wanna fork out the money for a professional one so i made one myself, anyone looking for the tut i used for it look here

I look like an idiot dont i....
now this method requires a helper and so...
heres my lovely assistant!

I then filled the tape mould of my head with expanding foam

Now i ordered a 14lb shipment of nsp chavant clay, i then melted it down half a pound at a time by cubing half a pound and melting it in a bowl in the oven. I only used 9 pounds tho for fear of the weight crushing my cheapo head cast. I stuck the head cast to a base using more expanding foam and put the helmet onto it and peeled off all the paper to reveal:

Now youll notice that the sculpt is lobsided, this is because i didnt fill the head mould properly so on one side a small section of the neck has not expanding foam in it so it just caved in completely.

I think its curious

 

[Starvinartist80]

Great job so far. Keep us updated, I'm curious how this will turn out.

 

[golem95]

does anyone have any good n-7 helmet refrences from mass effect 2? Ive been looking but all the refs ive found have either been at odd angles or not clear enough

Thanks!

 

[golem95]

so i found my own refrences but due to me not having sloshed the clay around very well in the pepakura, progress is slow. But hey! im learning
ive decided to make this into a full blown mass effect 3 costume thread starting with the helmet, i want to get the sculpt outta the way before i make my own templates for the foam armoring.

i plan on making this minus the omni blade and make a different pistol from mass effect

ill be using the templates for the mass effect 2 armor thats been circulating the forums and drawing ontop of them to modify them to make this new chest and ab armor, i will then be free handing the shoulders and the belt

also UPDATES!! the helmet progress as i said is slow
just been adding in detail lines and smoothing slowly, also fixed the caved in mannequin head

Feedback appreciated!

 

[Vic13ious]

excellent work! I'm always amazed at the talent that the 405th has, great job looking forward to seeing the progress on this

 

[golem95]

Thanks!
ive been working on doing the sculpt on and off for the last 2 weeks and ive just taken a short break to make the templates for the shoulder armour so expect and update with that on it soon

also took a more flattering photo of the sculpt... i think im gonna fix that line thats carved into the dome :/

 

[Roceifin]

absolutely nice!

 

[golem95]

So i tried making a pattern by free hand... and failed epically
so i instead made a simple model of it on pepakura for the templates and smoothed out the pepakura templates and cut them out on eva foam, now i completely failed with this as it was my first foam piece but i still went through with it to test plasti dip sealer on it and it turned out pretty well! so do you guys think its scaled right?

EDIT!!!
I painted up the test piece to see how well the paint goes on, with the plasti dip under layer its really amazing! barely cracks at all! only under extreme bending and will go back to normal when you stop bending the piece. What do you guys think of the paintjob? i wont have the final one in black but you guys think the damage is good?

 

[golem95]

sorry its been awhile guys but ive been away on holiday but ive been busy!

and heres some pics showing scale

more images coming soon so stay tuned!

 

[smick6]

The helmet sculpt is looking great.

 

[micky hg]

Hey mate.

Where didt you get the helmet pep file ?

 

[golem95]

I got it from a thread with the game ripped models shoot me a pm with your email and ill send it your way its 2 files, one has the helmet the other has the visor both scaled to 290mm which was right for me

 

[golem95]

UPDATES!!!

I got the hand plates painted up and wanted to show the classic Shepard red and white stripes I finished the armor for one sides whole arm including the inner shoulder armor which i free handed, It doesnt look right in the photo but thats just because it isnt sitting right due to the curve i heat bent it into is wrong but nothing some velcro cant fix

 

[fsracer]

awesome

looking good so far! im actually doing this same build for my gf. are you going to share the shoulder you made if so i would really like to have it. cant wait to see you finished suit!

 

[AlphaPrym]

Looking really good!!! Keep up the good work.

 

[golem95]

if you want any of the files i used just send me a pm with your email and ill send it your way
oh btw to anyone reading this i wont be able to post updates for a long while as ive gone away for boarding school
but ill be back soon enough and ill be straight into it!

 

[Starvinartist80]

everything is coming along really well. the helmet sculpt is killer. keep it up.

 

[golem95]

hey guys i know its been awhile and i havent made many updates but school work and a sports injury has kept me away from building
i have an update!
ive completed the other side's arm armor i.e. bicep forearm and shoulder and i have also completed the front of the torso
no progress on the sculpt yet tho
hope to finish this project in christmas... if i dont run out of foam that is....
pics of the chest and crotch plate:

and closer up of the chest:

 

[wazaaman]

Man the ammount of detail and smoothness in your armor is straight up beautiful

 

[Lord Magneto]

Man this looks great.

So how exactly did you use the clay for the helmet with the pep file?

did you take the pep file and then fill the inside of it with clay to create a "mold"

also what are you going to do to make the clay hard? bake it in the oven?